Department of Economics, Gebze Technical University, Kocaeli, Turkey.
Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
J Biosoc Sci. 2021 Jan;53(1):137-156. doi: 10.1017/S0021932020000103. Epub 2020 Mar 11.
This study investigated whether woman's education, labour market status and the status within the household have any impact on their birth control behaviour in Turkey. Empirical analyses were implemented using the 2013 Demographic and Health Survey dataset, which includes information on women's socioeconomic status and their current choice of contraceptives: whether they used any method, and if so, what method they used. Using a bivariate probit model with selection to control for any possible selection bias, the results suggest that whether a woman uses any birth control method, and whether the woman chooses modern methods over traditional methods, are primarily explained by education level and urban/rural residence, and that the determinants of contraceptive use vary across college-educated and non-college-educated women. The results also indicate that non-employed women are less likely to use any birth control method compared with women with regular, full-time jobs. However the effect was statistically insignificant.
本研究旨在探讨土耳其女性的受教育程度、劳动力市场地位和家庭地位对其节育行为的影响。本研究采用了 2013 年人口与健康调查数据集进行实证分析，该数据集包含了女性社会经济地位以及她们当前避孕方式的信息：她们是否使用了任何避孕方法，如果使用了，使用的是哪种方法。本研究采用了二元 Probit 模型和选择控制来控制任何可能的选择偏差，结果表明，女性是否使用任何避孕方法，以及女性是否选择现代方法而不是传统方法，主要取决于教育水平和城乡居住情况，而且避孕方式的决定因素在受过大学教育和未受过大学教育的女性之间存在差异。结果还表明，与有固定全职工作的女性相比，未就业的女性使用任何避孕方法的可能性较低。然而，这种影响在统计学上并不显著。
